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  • A forest abounding in lilies and sweet basils and roses, full of trees laden with fruit good to eat,

  • And fountains of sweet limpid water. I fostered the child with a hundred endearments.

  • Myriads of melodious singing-birds poured forth a hundred songs in that garden. 4810

  • I made for him a couch of wild-rose leaves; I made him secure from the shock of afflictions.

  • I told the sun not to scorch him; I told the wind to blow on him gently;

  • I told the clouds not to rain upon him; I told the lightning not to dart at him.

  • I said, ‘O December, do not cut off the mild weather from this orchard; O November, do not let thy fist fall on this garden.’”

  • The miracles of Shaybán Rá‘í, may God sanctify his venerable spirit!

  • Just as Shaybán Rá‘í (the shepherd), because of the froward wolf, used to draw a line round his flock at the hour of the Friday prayers, 4815

  • In order that no sheep should go beyond that line, and that no wolf or mischievous robber should come inside.

  • ’Twas on the model of Húd's circle of refuge, in which his followers were safe from the sarsar wind.

  • (Húd said to them), “Stay quietly within this line for eight days and view the terrible mutilation (which is being inflicted) outside.”

  • It (the wind) lifted (the unbelievers) into the air and flung them on the stones, so that flesh and bone were torn asunder.

  • One party it hurled against each other in the air, so that their bones crumbled like poppy-seed. 4820

  • There is no room in the Mathnawí to describe fully that chastisement whereat Heaven trembled.

  • If, O icy wind, thou art doing this by (thine own) nature, (then) try to invade the line and circle drawn by Húd!

  • O natural philosopher, perceive that this kingdom (of God) is above Nature, or else come and (if thou canst) wipe out this (narrative) from the Holy Book!

  • Prohibit those who recite the Qur’án (professionally) and impose a ban (upon them), or punish the teacher and put terror into him!

  • Thou art helpless and unable to understand the cause of this helplessness: thy helplessness is a reflexion (foretaste) of the Day of Retribution. 4825

  • O perverse man, thou hast many a helpless plight before thee: (when) the hour comes, lo, the hide-aways will emerge!

  • Happy is he whose (spiritual) food is this helplessness and bewilderment and who in both worlds is sleeping in the shadow (protection) of the Beloved.

  • He (such an one) is conscious of being helpless both in the stable (of the present life) and in the last (future) state: he is dead (to self), he has adopted “the old women's religion.”

  • (He is) like Zalíkhá, (who), when Joseph beamed upon her, found the way from decrepitude to youth.

  • Life depends on dying (to self) and on suffering tribulation: the Water of Life is in the (Land of) Darkness. 4830

  • Resuming the Story of the most High God's bringing up Nimrod in his childhood without the intervention of mother and nurse.

  • “In short, that garden, like the (spiritual) orchard of gnostics, was secure from the simoom and the sarsar wind.

  • A leopardess (there) had newly given birth to cubs: I bade her give milk to him (Nimrod), and she obeyed.